Now, Look What'cha Made Me Do !!!!!

How did we become a nation of reactionaries? That is not to say revolutionaries, which; by the way, would now be called traitors; just as they were around 1776. When life starts getting a little "crazy," I have noticed it seems to snowball, and when it does, I get my thesaurus. We have truly become a people of reaction. Who is taking action? Have you noticed, whoever is reacting is just "having to be ugly" because: whoever or whatever did whatever, whenever to "make them do what they have to do." In other words, we have an excuse to be ugly, abusive, mean, arrogant, aggressive, or whatever we deem "excusable" by accusing someone else. We are now in a war that has gone on for almost three years; that is two years, ten months, and a few days past the 40 days Mission Accomplished speech. And all because someone else made us "be aggressive???" And this is really sad, in that we reacted in aggression toward someone that did not actually "make us do this."
We are Americans, we do not have to be accountable for our actions, because we are only reacting. Someone else made us do what we are doing that cannot be maintained or contained. And so, like disgruntled first graders, we cry, " they made me do it!" or the ever popular "look what'cha made me do, now!" I was on a "thesaurus trail" when I landed on the word "ultraconservative" which said to see: reactionary. Now, I am not writing this stuff, I am merely passing on the information I have found. We didn't become a nation of reactionaries by elections. We became a nation of reactionaries by the "spirit of fear," which perhaps was welcomed by certain election results. Scripture tells us we are not given to a spirit of fear; but of power, love, and of a sound mind. We have somehow interpretted that to be lived out as: "We are not given to a spirit of reason; but of aggression, accusation, and paranoia."
How is it that we live in a country that claims we as individauls are to "turn the other cheek" while we as a nation, declare war? How is it that we can insist upon the Ten Commandments being upon the walls of the courthouse, yet nowhere to be seen on the walls of the church? How is it that we have stone throwing piety; that does not believe in abortion, but a child's life can be a "living hell?" How did we become a nation that acts against what we do not believe in? What happened to standing and seeing the salvation of the Lord? What happened to "when you have done all you know, stand?" What happened to judge not, lest you be judged? Because the next verse is pretty clear about the results . . .
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.